Legality is not the issue. (Score 1)

It sounds like company policy is pretty straightforward. Now, it depends on how this policy is given to the employee...if there is a rule book somewhere they can go look at if they (the employees) want to, there is a defense against the intrusion. If, however, there are flag's (motd's) banners on the bulletin boards, etc. explaining this, then there is NO reasonable expectation of privacy. Hey, the company owns the computers and has some sort of jurisdiction over the content. Not the best answer, but legally they might have the edge. I would ignore anything that is not illegal (child pronography, etc.) or not major abuse (i.e. 10+ images a day, etc.) It's just like playing solitaire on the Win95 boxes, wasted resources..... my $0.02 -Jaffo